SlothB77:I hate saying this, but Obama has a mandate. The GOP was soundly defeated. In every key race, we lost. We lost Virginia and Ohio. We might lose Florida. Scott Brown lost in Mass. Mourdock and Akin soundly defeated. Kaine over Allen. It was a thumping.

They did this in 2008 too; a great night for Democrats = "this wasn't a mandate, America is a center-right country, and what we learned from this election is that Americans want lower taxes and more defense spending."

I tuned in to Fox News just long enough to catch his little "as a psychiatrist I'll write anyone who asks a prescription" comment, which tells me he's just planning to spend the next 4 years heavily medicated. I guess he got started on that before writing this article.

SlothB77:I hate saying this, but Obama has a mandate. The GOP was soundly defeated. In every key race, we lost. We lost Virginia and Ohio. We might lose Florida. Scott Brown lost in Mass. Mourdock and Akin soundly defeated. Kaine over Allen. It was a thumping.

Anybody remember in the Old Testament, when Pharaoh was more than happy to free the Jews, but God "hardened his heart" so that he could demonstrate his wrath and power?

I'm not a particularly pious man, but as a scientist, that's my professional conclusion, because it's the only thing that makes any farking sense anymore. These self-righteous bozos are willing to throw this country over a cliff--not to be proven right, but to keep the other guy from being right. There is absolutely no reason for these Republican hard-line tactics from a political perspective. In fact, most of the far right Tea Partiers and rape-lovers were thrown out, and their derp cost them the Presidency.

But they just can't see it. So, I'm going with God, and warning against a storm of wrath of Biblical proportions.

ginandbacon:propasaurus: Really, is there anyone who didn't think they would veer even further right?

I'm counting on it. I want to take back the House.

That will be tougher because of the redistricting damage. I would suggest every farker try to get their state to pass a simplest geometric shape amendment like Iowa has. That would force non partisan redistricting immediately.

Lundah:I tuned in to Fox News just long enough to catch his little "as a psychiatrist I'll write anyone who asks a prescription" comment, which tells me he's just planning to spend the next 4 years heavily medicated. I guess he got started on that before writing this article.

I caught that one too. It seems that drug abuse and illegal scrip writing are OK with Republicans. But Rush and Jeb's daughter already knew that.

Oh the denial, the wailing, the sobbing, the wringing of hands! The next stage of this will be the republicans blaming each other for their failure... never once thinking that the reason they failed yesterday is that they are out of touch with more than 1/2 of America.

dr_blasto:GAT_00: Don't expect the GOP for a second to recognize that the voters picked the Democrats. They're going to go further to the right and become even more intransigent if they can.

There will be no movement to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich so they will expire for everyone. The fiscal cliff will end with the automatic cuts. And we still have a farm bill that will never get passed, Medicare payments to doctors which will never get passed and we hit a deficit ceiling in March.

The GOP is going to block every single one of those, mark my words.

If the tax cuts expire and sequestration goes in place, we may not hit the debt ceiling.

I don't think they'd take care of all of it, especially since the sequestration will crash the economy.

"And all the soul-searching about what ideology we are going to pursue is going to come from them. And I think it will be a fairly Reaganite and conservative one."

If Reagan were alive and in office today, he would be labeled as a RINO and drummed out of the GOP in disgrace. That seems to be the one thing the modern GOP and Tea Party are missing in this whole equation.

born_yesterday:I'm not a particularly pious man, but as a scientist, that's my professional conclusion, because it's the only thing that makes any farking sense anymore. These self-righteous bozos are willing to throw this country over a cliff--not to be proven right, but to keep the other guy from being right. There is absolutely no reason for these Republican hard-line tactics from a political perspective. In fact, most of the far right Tea Partiers and rape-lovers were thrown out, and their derp cost them the Presidency.

But they just can't see it. So, I'm going with God, and warning against a storm of wrath of Biblical proportions.

Occam's Razor would lead me to believe that they're just dumb.

When your entire platform is based on faith instead of evidence, you must destroy any contrary evidence.

None of the presdiential wins of the past twelve years, with the exception of 2008, can be considered a mandate. The thing is, the repubs have redefined the word mandate to mean "We won by the tinest of margins but a win's a win and we will proceed to do exactly what we pleae whatever the American people thinks of it." By that definition, Obama has a mandate.

Message to the repubs: The big question is: what's next? Will you push the government over the fiscal cliff to punish America for voting against you? Or will you come to your senses and pitch in to make things better? Keep in mind that there will be very little in terms of bipartisan offers coming from the Democrats this time around. We tried that and learned our lesson: there's no point in holding out the hand of friendship to someone determined to be your enemy. This time the terms will be more or less dictated by the Democrats with little room for compromise; take it or leave it. The good news is that the Democrats are grown-ups, ready to make painful changes in programs they hold dear and realistic enough to see the necessity of maintaining programs they find distasteful (that is, after all, why we're still in Afghanistan), all in the name of fiscal responsibility and political realism. Can you do the same? Will you? Because frankly, it's going to happen with or without your participation. You can either come to your senses and rejoin normal political culture, or you can further marginalize yourselves and ultimately cease to exist, or, at best, linger on as a local level parody of what a political party looks like.

Now then, it would be nice if you repubs would all shut the fark up for a couple of days. Mommy and Daddy would like to take a little nap and we've had quite enough of your incessant whining. Last time we were too busy saving the country from your incompetence and fiscal malfeasance to deal with your properly but we're done coddling you. If it's a spanking you want, it's a spanking you'll get.

quickdraw:SlothB77: I hate saying this, but Obama has a mandate. The GOP was soundly defeated. In every key race, we lost. We lost Virginia and Ohio. We might lose Florida. Scott Brown lost in Mass. Mourdock and Akin soundly defeated. Kaine over Allen. It was a thumping.

Thank you! You now are farkied as "graceful in defeat."

He's now joining my very prestigious "Reasonable Conservative" list. Anytime anyone on that list speaks, I slow down and very carefully consider what they say.

MFL:Well at least we know for a fact today our fiscal problems are not going to be fixed anytime soon.

light em if you got em.....it's going to be a bumpy ride.

As opposed to a Romney win, which would've made them worse. His only solid policy positions were "Cut taxes, especially on the rich, invade Iran, and never ever touch the defense budget."; the same kind of shiat that skullfarks our economy every time the Republicans have control.

Krauthammer is one of the morons who claimed Hurricane Sandy stopped "Mitt-mentum," even though every state poll showed that the race had been stalled for 2 weeks before Sandy hit. He was also still predicting a Mitt win a few days before the electio.

These propagandists have been exposed. Again. Anyone who still listens to them is a f*cking idiot.

jst3p:Zerochance: jst3p: Carth: American's should be up in arms for the bullshiat "horse race" the media sold.

If it motivated people to vote I am OK with it.

I'm not. Yes, it motivated people to vote which caused my guy to win, but that's not the media's job. They're supposed to report and fact-check. They didn't do either. Not a goddamn bit.

They haven't for a very long time, news has been a sham for decades. At least in this case there was a positive byproduct.

The only problem I have with it is the usage of the word news. I got no beef with what the media wants to do. But I think we all agree, it's not news, it's entertainment. By all means, pretend the race is close even though all facts say otherwise. But then you shouldn't get to call yourself news.

lennavan:SlothB77: I hate saying this, but Obama has a mandate. The GOP was soundly defeated. In every key race, we lost. We lost Virginia and Ohio. We might lose Florida. Scott Brown lost in Mass. Mourdock and Akin soundly defeated. Kaine over Allen. It was a thumping.

Kudos to you by the way for the gracious acceptance.

This. Please know that when I'm practicing schadenfreude, it is not against the reasonable people. Only against the worst.

Dog Welder:"And all the soul-searching about what ideology we are going to pursue is going to come from them. And I think it will be a fairly Reaganite and conservative one."

If Reagan were alive and in office today, he would be labeled as a RINO and drummed out of the GOP in disgrace. That seems to be the one thing the modern GOP and Tea Party are missing in this whole equation.